Kali Poongundran vs. Union Of India

COURT NO.1

SECTION PIL-W

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<pre>Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 55/2019</pre>

JANHIT ABHIYAN

ITEM NO.1501

Petitioner(s)

Respondent $(s)$

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA

WITH

T.C.(C) No. 8/2021 (XVI-A)

$W.P.(C)$ No. 596/2019 (X)

$W.P.(C)$ No. 446/2019 (PIL-W)

$W.P.(C)$ No. 427/2019 (X)

W.P.(C) No. 343/2019 (PIL-W)

$W.P.(C)$ No. 331/2019 (X)

W.P.(C) No. 798/2019 (PIL-W)

W.P.(C) No. 732/2019 (PIL-W)

$W.P.(C)$ No. 854/2019 (PIL-W)

T.C.(C) No. 12/2021 (XVI-A)

T.C.(C) No. 10/2021 (XVI-A)

T.C.(C) No. $9/2021$ (XVI-A)

T.C.(C) No. 7/2021 (XVI-A)

T.C.(C) No. 11/2021 (XVI-A)

T.P.(C) No. 1245/2019 (XVI-A)

$\mathbf{C}^{\text{NoPerfinite}}(C) \quad \text{No.} \quad 122/2020 \quad (XVI-A)$

Reas SEP(C) No. 8699/2020 (XV)

T.P.(C) No. 2715/2019 (XVI-A)

• W.P.(C) No. 341/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 249/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 73/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 80/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 72/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 76/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 222/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 69/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 473/2020 (X)
• W.P.(C) No. 419/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 122/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 106/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 133/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 212/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 162/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 182/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 178/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 168/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 95/2019 (PIL-W)
• W.P.(C) No. 146/2019 (X)
• W.P.(C) No. 493/2019 (PIL-W)
• Date : 07-11-2022 These matters were called on for pronouncement of judgment today

Counsel for the Parties:

Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Sanjay Jain, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Digvijay Dam, Adv.

Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. K.M. Natraj, ASG Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kr. Sharma, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR Ms. Jhanvi Dubey, Adv. Ms. Ishita Choudhury, Adv. Ms. Shivani Vij, Adv. Ms. Tanya Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Priyanshu Maheshwari, Adv. Prof. (Dr.) Ravi Verma Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. A.D.N. Rao, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, AOR Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Amit P. Shahi, Adv. Mr. Rajshri A. Dubey, Adv. Mr. H.B. Dubey, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. Mr. D.Shiva Shankar, Adv. Ms. Agrimaa Singh, Adv. Mr. Manish Dhingra, Adv. Ms. Ritambhara, Adv. Mr. Manish Dhingra, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Sr. Adv. Dr. Milind Sathe, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Rishi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Sunil Mittal, Adv. Mr. Digit Saikia, Adv. Mr. Suneet Tyagi, Adv. Ms. Reshma Kalsekar, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR

Mr. Shekhar Napahde, Sr. Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mr. Sheikh F. Kalia, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Dash, Adv. Dr. Prashant Pratap, Adv. Ms. Farah Hashmi, Adv. Mr. Kumar Mitakshar, Adv. Ms. Racheeta Chawala, Adv. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Ms. Naghma Imtiaz, Adv. Mr. Ahmed Zargham, Adv. Mr. Saif Naseem, Adv. Ms. Aadya Mishra, Adv. Ms. Asifa Rashid Mir, Adv. Ms. Maria Kousar, Adv. M/s. Equity Lex Associates, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Vishal Kr. Kaushik Adv. Mr. Tushar Arora, Adv. Mr. Chandra Tanay Choubey, Adv. Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Adv. Prof. (Dr.) K. Elumalai, Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, AOR Mr. Ravi Prakash, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sumit Kishore, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shashank Singh, AOR Ms. Disha Wadekar, Adv. Mr. Anupam Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Satwik Parik, Adv. Mr. Adil Sharfuddin, Adv. Mr. Ujjaval Kumar, Adv. Mr. Varun Singh, Adv. Mr. Rijive Ke Sinha, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Asad Khan, Adv Ms. Savita Devi, Adv. Mr. Mrinal Kr. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kr. Sharma, adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Jethmalani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sourabh Mishra, AAG Mr. Yashraj Singh Bundela G.A., Adv.

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Mr. Sunny Chaudhary, AOR Mr. Ajay Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mugdha Pandey, Adv. Mr. Wedo Khalo, Adv. Mr. V.C. Shukla, Adv. Mr. S. Niranjan Reddy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv. Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Mr. K.V. Girish Chowdary, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Akhila Palem, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sahil Raveen, Adv. Ms. Vibha Datta Makhija, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prashant Shukla, Adv. Mr. Praveen Gour, Adv. Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv. Mr. Suyash Shrivastava, Adv. Ms. Baani Khanna, Adv. Ms. Shreya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Shankar Singh, Adv. Ms. Mamta Pandey, Adv. Mr. Anurag Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR Mr. Soumya Chakarborty, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shobhit Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Lal Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Umesh Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Vishal Singh, Adv Mr. R. C. Kohli, AOR Mr. K.S. Kulkarni, Sr. Adv. Ms. Yamini Sharma, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dewivedi, Adv. Ms. Shweta Sand, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Gupta, Adv. Mr. C.M. Jha, Adv. Ms. Kaveri S. Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj, Sr. Adv. Mr. Jaimon Andrews, Adv. Mr. Ameen Hassan, Adv. Mr. Piyo Harold Jaimon, Adv. Mr. Firdouse C.P., Adv. Mr. Ashwati M.K. AOR

Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj, Sr. Adv. Mr. Roy Abraham, Adv. Ms. Malavika Jayanth, Adv. Ms. Seema Jain, Adv. Mr. Akhil Abrahim Roy, Adv. Mr. Yaduvidner Lal, Adv. Ms. Purva, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr. P. Wilson, Sr. Adv. Mr. R. Nedumaran, AOR Mr. Apoorv Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Baij Nath, Adv. Prof. (Dr.) Ravi Varma Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dinesh P. Rajbhar, Adv. Mr. Ranbir Singh Yadav, Adv. Ms. Anzu. K. Varkey, AOR Mr. Ravi K. Deshpande, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anshu R. Deshpande, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv Mr. Rishi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Sunil Mittal, Adv. Ms. Anu Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Suneet Tyagi, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. S. S. Nehra, AOR Dr. M.P. Raju, Adv. Mr. P.I. Jose, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Verma, Adv. Mr. Manoj Swarup, Adv. Dr. K.S. Bhati, Adv. Mr. Arun Dagar, Adv. Mr. Subhash Chandra Sagar, Adv. Mr. Monish Rana, Adv. Mr. Mahendra Singh, Adv. Prof. (Dr.) G. Mohan Gopal, Adv. Mr. Shishir Pinaki, Adv. Mr. Muzaffar Khan, Adv. Mr. Vijendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. V. Ramchander Goud, Adv. Ms. Mallika Das, Adv. Mr. B. Ramakrishna Rao, Adv. Mr. Kasoju Mahesh Acharya, Adv. Mr. D. Mahesh Babu, AOR Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR

Ms. Hrishika Jain, Adv. Mr. Bharat Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shourya Dasgupta, Adv. Mr. Aman Naqvi, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Bhatnagar, Adv. Ms. Ujjwala Uppaluri, Adv. Mr. Kaleeswaram Raj, Adv. Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Ms. Thulasi K. Raj, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., AOR Ms. Diya Kapur, Adv. Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Siddharth Nath, Adv. Mr. Raghav Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Lodha, Adv. Ms. Vasudha Jain, Adv. Ms. Khushboo Hora, Adv. Mr. Sachin Patil, Adv. Mr. Geo Joseph, Adv. Mr. Risvi Muhammed, Adv. Mr. Kailas Bajirao Autade, AOR Mr. Durgesh Gupta, Adv. Mr. Akash Kakade, Adv. Mr. Somanatha Padhan, AOR Mr. Ashok Anand, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Sukhada Kakade, Adv. Mr. Swetab Kumar, Adv. Mr. A. Selvin Raja, AOR Mr. A. Raja Mohamed, Adv. Mr. A. Mohamed Yusuf, Adv. Ms. V. Shahira Banu, Adv. Mr. S.A.S. Alandeen, Adv. Ms. Nikita Kumari, Adv. Mr. Varun Thakur, Adv. Mr. Shashan Ratnoo, Adv. Mr. Brajesh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. P. A. Noor Muhamed, AOR Mr. K.P. Mohamad Shareef, Adv. Ms. Giffara S., Adv. Mr. Abdul Shukoor, Adv. Shereef K.A., Adv.

Mr. Roy Abraham, Adv.

Mr. A.N. Rajan Babu, Adv. Ms. Reena Roy, Adv. Mr. Akhil Abraham Roy, Adv. Mr. Yaduinder Lal, Adv. Ms. Purva, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr. Shashank Ratnoo, Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. K.K.L. Gautam, Adv. Ms. Saroj Bala, Adv. Ms. Vaishali Nariyala, Adv. Mr. Kaushal Jeet Kait, Adv. Mr. Kritagya Kumar Kait, Adv. Mr. Manoj Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rahul Mohod, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gurawa, Adv. Ms. Vasundhara Rana, Adv. Mr. Rajbeeer Baudh, Adv. Mr. S.J. Amith, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupam Ngangom, Adv. Mr. Wahengbam Immanuel Maitei, Adv. Dr. M.P. Raju, Adv. Mr. M. Vijaya Bhaskar, AOR Mr. Murari Lal, Adv. Mr. R.S.M. Kalky, Adv. Mr. S.P. Singh, Adv. Mr. Ra mesh Kumar, Mr. Sumit Kishore, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR Ms. Anupama Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amar Jyoti Sharma, Adv. Mr. Bir Inder Singh Gurm, Adv. Mr. Milind Singh, Adv. Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Ms. M. Venmani, Adv. Mr. Abhisar Thakral, Adv. Mr. D. Venkata Krishna, Adv. Mr. Sudhansu Palo, AOR Mr. Raj Kumar Yadav, Adv. Mr. Budhadev Palo, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gautam Das, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kr. Maurya, Adv.

Ms. Ipsita Behura, Adv. Dr. Charu Mathur, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Dubey, Adv. Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Malak Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Haris Beeran, Adv. Mr. Mustaq Salim, Adv. Mr. Usman Ghani Khan, Adv. Mr. Azhar Assees, Adv. Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, AOR Mr. V. K. Biju, AOR Ms. Ria Sachthey, Adv. Mr. Chetanya Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Amlendu Kumar Akhilesh Kumar Jha, Adv. Dr. Ranjeet Bharti, Adv. Ms. Rubina Jawed, Adv. Mr. Parthsarathi M. Saraf, Adv. Mr. N.P. Rakesh Paniker, Adv. Mr. Subhash Chandran, Adv. Ms. Kavitha K.T., Adv. Mr. Himanshu Tyagi, AOR Mr. Ayush Negi, Adv. Ms. Disha Mittal, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. Vijay Kumar Sharma, adv. Mr. Ashutosh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Yadav, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Adv. Mr. Amarkant Patel, Adv. Mr. Ajay Sharma, Adv. Mr. Varun Mishra, Adv. Mr. Gulab Chandra Yadav, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Siddharath Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Ms. Kirti Dadheech, Adv. Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Mr. K.V. Balakrishnan, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ravichandran Iyer, Adv.

Mr. Amol B. Karande, AOR Mr. Rajasaheb Patil, Adv. Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR Mr. Sajal Singhai, Adv. Mr. Pratik R. Bombarde, AOR Mr. Reepak Kansal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Adv. Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Purvish J. Malkan, Adv. Mr. Ankur Mittal, Adv. Mr. Nirmal Kumar Ambastha, AOR Ms. Ashmita Bisariya, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Deepti Hooda, Adv. Ms. Sawati Singh, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Singh, Adv. Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Santosh Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Zulfiker Ali P. S, AOR Mr. Faisal M. Aboobacker, Adv. Mr. Augustine Peter, Adv. Ms. Lakshmi Sree P., Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Adv. Mr. Gopi Chand, Adv. Mr. Anand Prakash, Adv. Mr. Namit Saxena, AOR Ms. Niranjana Singh, AOR Mr. Annam Venkatesh, AOR Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Gaurav Sharma, AOR Mr. Dhawal Mohan, Adv.

Mr. Prateek Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Mitushi Goyal, Adv. Ms. Savita Singh, AOR Mr. Subodh S. Patil, AOR Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Mr. Dhawal Uniyal, AOR Mr. Ajay Bansal, Adv. Mr Gaurav Yadava, Adv. Ms. Veena Bansal, Adv. Mr. Sourav Jindal, Adv. Mr. Sujeet Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vijendra Karana, Adv. Mr. C.P. Singh, Adv Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, Adv. Mr. Anilendra Pandey, Adv. Ms. Kumudini Priyadarshini Singh, Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, AOR Mr. Anand Adv. Mr. Mohammad Usman Siddiqui, Adv. Ms. Aisha Siddiqui, Adv. Ms. Sakeena Quidwai, Adv. Mr. Prakash Sharma Mr. Pawan Prakash Pathak, In Person Ms. Prakrati Raj

These matters have been disposed of today by pronouncement of four separate judgments rendered by Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. Ravindra Bhat, for himself and on behalf of the Hon'ble the Chief Justice; Hon'ble Ms. Justice Bela M. Trivedi; and, Hon'ble Mr. Justice J.B. Pardiwala.

In view of the decision rendered by the majority consisting of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, Hon'ble Ms. Justice Bela M. Trivedi and Hon'ble Mr. Justice J.B. Pardiwala, the challenge raised to 103rd Amendment to the Constitution fails and the decision rendered by Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. Ravindra Bhat remains in minority.

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Consequently, the Writ Petitions and other proceedings stand disposed of.

In view of the above, pending applications, including applications for impleadment/intervention, if any, also stand disposed of.

(NEETU KHAJURIA) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS (VIRENDER SINGH) COURT MASTER

(Four signed Reportable Judgments and one reportable Common signed order are placed on the file.)